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Chemo no, assisted suicide yes

Four months after assisted suicide became legal in California, patients are being told that treatment will no longer be funded – but assisted suicide will -as happened in Oregon

Dutch mull euthanasia extension

Dutch Government ministers have announced their intention to legislate for assisted suicide for ‘people who regard their life as completed’

‘Old age rational suicide’

In the latest example of assisted suicide advocates softening their language, the Society for Old Age Rational Suicide becomes ‘My Death, My Decision’

Swiss assisted suicides up 26%

Swiss authorities, publishing statistics for the first time since 2009, record 742 assisted suicides of Swiss residents in 2014

First minor euthanised in Belgium

The death of a 17 year old marks the first officially reported death of an under-18 since the country’s law was amended to include children

CNK marks first anniversary of Marris Bill’s rejection

Alliance celebrates one year since a packed House of Commons voted 330-118 against a private member’s bill to introduce assisted suicide for the terminally ill

MPs consider suicide prevention

Care Not Killing responds to a Health Select Committee call for evidence on the subject of suicide prevention

Washington 2015: new highs, new lows

In the year British MPs rejected the practice, assisted suicide in Washington rose to its highest level and was characterised by the youngest participant; shortened doctor-patient relationships; and the rise of financial pressure as a factor

‘Assisted dying’ – disabled views

CNK Campaign Director Dr Peter Saunders writes to The Telegraph, highlighting the breadth and depth of opposition among disabled people to assisted suicide

R4’s euthanasia rallying cry

An edition of BBC Radio 4’s ‘Inside the Ethics Committee’ brings together a less than objective panel to call for active, non-voluntary euthanasia

Changing the guard

In CNK’s tenth anniversary year, a fond farewell to retiring stalwarts is followed by renewal, as we welcome new Board director Dr Colin Harte

BMA members reject neutrality

Delegates at the Annual Representative Meeting in Belfast rejected a move to neutrality on ‘assisted dying’ by 198-115

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